St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-30
MAKING A MAN OVER.
A Formulation Gives Away the Secrets
Of His Art.
AN ADONIS FROM A DUDE.
How II Is he Makes a Fat Person Lean
and a Slim Dandy Cor
pulent.

NF0rmuIatlng done mere, READ sign
on OneHundred and Twenty-frst street,
New York. A Star reporter, who was
ignorant of the meaning, ventured to
ask. He went into close, dark apart
ment ON the second floor of the building
and as he entered he heard the remark:
''lf they were not as vain as women L
wouldn't be here to-day" The speaker
was little stubby man with small gray
eyes, full red beard and an unctuOuS
flabby face. Scattered around him on
the bench on which he sat and about
the floor were pieces of silk, satin and
serge, bundles of horse hair and pack
ages of half open cotton. The little
man was busily stitching a blue satin
quilted article that looked like a cuSh-
ion of baby carriage.
"YeS, | am what tailors term formu
lator," he continued, in thin, Squeaky
voice. 1.-The word is indicative of my
trade, or rather profession. My Occu-
patton is truly the latter, inaSmuch as it
is an art-the art of improving, en-
bel1ishing or modifying the masculine
figure, as the case demands.
Padding? Yes, some might term it
that. Didn't you know that men pad,
Ell? Why, bless your soul, they have
been doing it since the days of Joseph.
There is a trite saying among our craft
that his coat of many cOlOrs' was made
is a benefactiOn to mankind. We are
the foundation stones for tailoring. In
deed, if it wasn't for the formulation, l
doubt if that trade would be as much in
vogue"
The speaker separated thread with
a finger-nail close to the garment.
Then he held the pad toward the light,
ScrutinlZing it critically, seized his tape
line and began measuring the garment,
referring constantly to small piece OF
paper with the measurements on it.
1.-The man | refer to is creature Of
dissatisfaction. Nothing about his own
personality or makeup contents him.
He is essentially being of observation.
If he has a friend who is short and fat,
while he himself is tall and thin, he
forms the idea that he, too, would like
to be stumpy and adipOse.
MAKING DUDE AN AD0NIS.
ga tailor can do little for him, but we
can. Liberal but discriminating pad
ding will make him corpulent, and if
his makeup is expertly perfected it will
give him the appearance OF being con-
siderably shorter than when in his nor
NAL state. His friends will remark how
well uC 10 lOOhluS, dom HON liC hdo
grown so fleshy, and the artful deceiver
will launch into such disse1 tation of
gastrOnomy that the horse hair appli-
ances in his artificial chest will shrivel
up into a double bow-knot with sur
prise.
''Why, sir. can make an AdoniS of a
dude, or Uriah Heep of Hercules.
These forms are not limited entirely
to the trunk of the subject. The calves,
hips and knees all come in for its bene-
fit. You know the knee of a mans
trousers in less than month after they
are made become 'baggy.' This neces-
states any amount of running to the
tailor's and having the garment pressed,
if the wearer desires to be we'll dressed.
Although a constant bending of the
knee is in part the cause of this eyesOre
tothemen, the construction of the mem
Der is the principal reason of such a
state of things. Nov look here" and
the little man stretched one of his fat
legs straight out before him. ''Feel my
knee; you see the knee cap sits like a
hillock over the points. Below it the
limb swerves in. Now how are you go
ing to make trouser leg sit smoothly
here without catching? Can't say?
Then I'll tell you; use forms below and
like glove, and won't bag.
''YOu see the form being stitched to
the lining of the garment makes it stiff
and firm, and prevents the cloth strain
ing. You may have noticed that the
cloth never stretches at the knee cap,
but above and below it. A little dress
ing about the too large calf and a little
dOctOring at this member itself is a
valuable aid to the fit or the leg case
ment.
THOSE WHO PAD.
"You can't imagine how extensively
padding is carried on with profession
ais. OF course the ballet is whole col
lection of fats, but as it is composed
more or less of the fair sex, it is not my
province to comment on them in my
talk with you. But actOrs-tragic, comic
and melOdramatic-n all pad.
Why, there was an actor in company
here last week, leading man, too,
whose form was constant subject of
flattering comment with the audience.
He was dressed in the costume of me-
diRvaI times, his legs were eXQuisitely
nodded and his chest. back and hips full
and muscular. in short, he was model
of manhood.
Had you seen him as did in his
room at the hotel one day, you would
have been pretty well disguised with
the way nature had used him.
"'FatS' are made of variety of ma
terials and worn in variety of ways.
Chest and spinal articles are made like
a sleeveless pocket of one continuous
piece of material. There is a hole for
the head, and the garment is slipped on
by extending the arms upward and per-
pendicularly and letting the article fall
on. Over the muscles of the chest the
garment is padded to any extent desired.
The small of the back is also touched up
as necessity dictates. The body of the
article is of silk or chamoiS. The chest
pads in cold weather are worn next to
the skin. By this arrangement the effect
is natural and consistent, and is almost
impossible, even by feeling. to discover
the artificiality of the padder's figure.
The complete chamOis outfit is the most
expensive, ranging in price from s25 to
$50 for an entirely new shape of these
goods. l can make you, to all intents
and purposes, as fine an athlete in one
week as the best gymnasium would re-
quire a year to accomplish. Why. there
is no limit to our possibilities. A good
many of our business men wear padded
undergarments, not particularly for the
effect. but because the clothing fits more
comfortably"